Fact-Checkers vs Independent Media: What You're Not Being Told

Who's fact-checking the fact-checkers? Join us live Monday as we unveil the true role these "fact-chokers" played in the engineered Covid-19 crisis.

Apr 02, 2023

"The fact-chokers smeared the dissidents." — Margaret Anna Alice, Mistakes Were NOT Made

You don’t want to miss Monday's General Assembly at 6pm UTC (2pm EDT) as we unveil the truth about the fact-checkers and the role they played in the engineered disinformation campaign of the last three years surrounding Covid-19.

Watch the replay on YouTube.

Who’s Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers?

Jemma Cooper will be chatting with Derrick Broze, Jason Bassler, and Joe Martino at General Assembly Meeting #83 about their experiences with Big Tech censorship and fact-checkers dating back years before Covid-19 emerged.

She will also speak with Judith Brown, a retired nurse educated to doctorate level who has been researching the disinformation industry, specifically fact-checking, for the last two years and has vital information to share with us. Given the latest revelations uncovering the corruption of Facebook and Twitter, this discussion is very timely and promises to be a fascinating one.

Independent Media vs The Fact-Checkers: An Inside Story

Derrick Broze, Jason Bassler, and Joe Martino are activists, journalists, content creators, and change makers. They were reaching millions around the world daily through independent media outlets such as The Conscious Resistance Network, The Free Thought Project, Collective Evolution, The Pulse, Police the Police, The Anti-Media, and more before censorship changed everything in 2018.

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About Derrick Broze

After launching The Conscious Resistance Network in 2012, Derrick began writing for a variety of independent media outlets in 2013. The largest of these organizations was The Anti-Media, which by 2016 was reaching tens of millions of people each week. Derrick’s journalism, video reports, and livestreams were featured across the independent media, as well as Al-Jazeera, RT, and Fox News.

However on October 11, 2018, everything changed when The Anti-Media was unexpectedly deleted by Facebook (and Twitter) without explanation along with more than 800 other pages in a massive censorship purge. The news organization Derrick worked for was “unpublished”—severing him from their more than two million Facebook followers.

Unsurprisingly, the same corporate media companies that Derrick often criticized hardly reported on the purge, and the ones that did cover it mostly repeated the statement from Facebook’s press release, claiming the company had simply taken action to remove “spam” and “fake accounts” that targeted users with the intent of misleading them with “inauthentic” behavior and driving them to ad farms to profit.

The Anti-Media didn’t do any of that, but the unprecedented censorship destroyed their entire business model overnight.

Please do subscribe to Derrick on Substack.

About Jason Bassler

The Free Thought Project was founded in 2013 by Jason Bassler and Matt Agorist. On October 11, 2018, without warning, their connection to nearly 6 million followers ended in the blink of an eye when Facebook and Twitter coordinated to remove The Free Thought Project (TFTP) and Police the Police (PTP) from their platforms in the same purge that took The Anti-Media out.

Following the censorship, a frustrated Bassler said, "I contributed to Facebook's success and growth! I decided to create content day after day. Now they piss on us."

During the years following the purge of 2018, Bassler has created new pages for both TFTP and PTP only to have them removed again and again.

Despite the significant and numerous hardships brought on by this unconscionable action by Facebook, TFTP and PTP have pushed forward with their mission to promote liberty and hold governments accountable.

Please do follow Jason on Twitter and check out the TFTP podcast.

About Joe Martino

In 2009, Joe founded Collective Evolution (CE), a media company that creates content about consciousness, personal development, current events, and philosophy. By 2014, CE was one of the most visited websites on the internet (top 1,000), reaching roughly 1 million people a day.

CE also began experiencing the era of censorship in 2018. They were removed from Google search, YouTube search, and were ghosted in Facebook newsfeeds. They were demonetized by Google and YouTube. Practically overnight, a forceful hand took away their revenue and stripped their media company from 14 employees to just 3.

“In 2018 and 2019, the amount of days I felt comatose, like I didn’t want to get up or do anything, is hard to count. I’d go to sleep and wake up feeling like I didn’t sleep. There was a slight anxiety in my stomach at all hours of the day, no matter what was going on,” Joe explained in a Substack post.

“From a logical perspective I had to ask: why did Big Tech, governments, and fact-checkers work so hard to shut down companies like mine and take almost everything that I had built away?”

After 15 years of running Collective Evolution, Joe launched a new project in 2021 born from curious minds seeking to fill a void in modern media and journalism. The Pulse looks to transparently bring a different discussion to the table that isn’t confined by lenses that divide or limit exploration.

Please do subscribe to Joe Martino and The Pulse on Substack.